Watch



Oct. 30, 1923.

L. ALBANESE WATCH Filed Aug. 22 1922 Leu @amara 35%, h is abtoz/nmj named oei. 30, 1923.

bmmm-:o STATES 1,472,350 PATENT ori-ice,

LEO ALBANESE, OF BBOOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WATCH.

Application filed August 22, 1922. Serial No. 583,482.

To all whom z't mag concern:

Be it known that I, Lno ALBANEsE, a citil zen of Italy, and'residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watches, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to watches and particularly to watch case constructions, and the object of the invention is to provide an elongated watch'casef, which is so constructed as to receive and support in one end portion of the case a watch movement, and to receive and support lin the other end portion thereof a powder pufl", and also to serve as a container for powder; a further object being to provide the watch case with hinge door members for controlling the insertion and removal of the watch movement 'and powder puff, one of said members being provided with a transparent panel through which the watch dial is visible, and the other of said members being provided on its inner face with a mirror; a still further object being to provideacase construction in which the powder'pufl' i's removable from the back of the watch case,, and the receptacle for the powder is sealed from the watch movement receiving receptacle, and the watch movement placedtherein; and with these and other objects in view, the invention consists in a watch construction of the class and for 'the purpose specified and which is constructed as hereinaften described and claimed.

The inventioni is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part in which the separate parts of my improvement are desl nated by suitable reference characters in each of the view s, and in which Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved watch construction;

Fig. 2 is a' longitudinal sectional view through the watch case, and on an enlarged scale. V v

Fig. 3 is a back` view ofthe lwatchA as shown in Fig. 1.

'Fig/1 -is a watch case, withone ofthe cover thereof in an open position and, 'f

Fig. 5 isa pers powder pufi whic I emplojf. v i

In practise I provide ane ongated watch case 10 the contour of whi may be of any members pending V 'of the appende perspective detail view of the` v ctive detail' view of the:l

desired form and said case is provided with two substantially circular apertures or compartments, 11 and 12, the compartment 11 opening outwardly through the front face of the case, while the compartment 12 opens outwardly through the back face thereof and the separate compartments `are sealed one from the other by a partition wall 13. V

The compartment 11 is adapted to receive a suitable watch movement 14, the stem of which is adapted to enter a recess 15 in the top wall of the case 10 and said top wall is preferablvy oop 16. The compartment 11 is adapted to be normally closed by a cover member 17 hinged to the bottom of the case as shown at 18 and said cover member is provided in front of the dial of the watch movement Alet with a transparent panel 19 through which the dial of the watch movel ment is visible, and this panel will conform with the formation or contour of the dial of the watch movement, which may be, of any desired form.

The compartment 12 is adapted to form a container for .face powder, rouge or the like and is also adapted to receive a powder puff 20, said puff being` shown in detail in Fig. 5 of the drawing. The is ada ted to be closed by a 'door member 21 hinge to the back face of the case as shown at 22 adjacent to the lower end thereof, and the inner face of the cover member 21 is provided with a mirror 23, 'j

Both of the cover members `17 and 21 are frictionally or otherwise held in a closed position, and by constructing `the watch case in the manner shown` a nd described, the powder in the compartment 12 is kept free from `and out of contact with the Watch movement 14 in the compartment 11, said compartments being Sealed one from the other, and it will be understood that while I have shown certain details of construction for carrying my invention into efiect, that I am not necesarily limited to these details and various chan es therein and modificatiens thereof ma e madewithin the scope claims without departing from the spirit,of my invention or sacrificin its l'advantages ving' what vI claim as new and desire LettersPatent, is; f p f 1, A'watchof Vthe class described, com- 'prising anfelongated waftchcase`,'means for to secure by provided with a suitable sus-- compartment 12 fully described my invention, i

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tion and removal of said Watch movement and powder puff.

2. A Watch of the class described, comprising an elongated Watch case, means for supporting a. watch movement in one end portion thereof, means for supporting a powder puff' or the like in the other end portion thcreof, said watch movement and powder puff being insertable into the watch case through opposite side faces thercof, and door members for controlling the insertion and removal of said watch movement and powder puff, one of said door members being provided with a transparent panel adapted to register with the dial of the watch movement.

3. A watch of the class described, ,comprising an elongated watch case, means for supporting a watch movement in one end portion thereof, means for supporting a powder puff or the like in the other end portion thereof, said watch movement and powder puff being insertable into the Watch case through opposite side faces thereof, and' door members for controlling the in-` sertion and removal of said watch movement and powder -uff, one of said door members being provided With a transparent panel adapted to register with the dial of the -watch movement, and the other of said door members being provided With a mirror.l

4. A watch case of the class described, said case being elongated in form and provided in the opposite end portions thereof with compartments opening outwardly through the opposite side faces of said case and Sealed one from the other.

5. A watch case of the class described, said case being elongated in form and provided in the opposite end portions thereof 6. A watch case of the class described,

said case being elongated in form and provided in the opposite end portions thereof with compartments opening outwardly through the opposite side faces of said case and Sealed one from the other, anda hinged cover member extending the full length of said 'watch casel and provided with a transparent panel adapted to register with one of the compartments of said case, and a door member hinged to the other side face of the watch case and adapted to normally close the other of said compartments.

7. A watch case of the class described, said case being elongated in form and provided in the opposite end portions thereof With compartments opening outwardly through the opposite side faces of said case and Sealed one from the other, and a hinged cover member extending the full length of said watch case and provided with a transparent panel adapted to register With one of the compartments of said case, and a door member hinged to the other side face of the Watch' case and adapted to normally close the other of said compartments, said last named door member being provided on its inner face With a mirror.

8. A Watch of the class described compris-' ing an elongated watch case, one end portion of the casing being provided With a compartment opening outwardly through one face thereof and in which a Watch movement is adapted to be supported, and the other end portion of the case being provided With a compartment opening' outwardly through the opposite face thereof. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name this 19th day of August 1922.

LEO ALBANESE. 

